Re: Extracting a hash reference from a string

in reply to Extracting a hash reference from a string

You are likely to find that the underlying hash has been destroyed before you get to the $@ postmortem. Stringified, the "reference" is not represented in the reference count.

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Re: Re: Extracting a hash reference from a string by Anonymous Monk on Mar 23, 2003 at 03:08 UTC
This is a good point, but in this case it is not a problem. The underlying hash guaranteed not to have had it reference count go to zero.	[reply]

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